> True, but I don't see what it has to do with my question. my mistake, I misunderstood your question
as Sreeram said, os.open can be used help(os.open) Help on built-in function open: open(...) open(filename, flag [, mode=0777]) -> fd Open a file (for low level IO). >>> import os >>> fd=os.open("secret", os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT, 0400) >>> os.write(fd,"not for everybody") 17 >>> os.close(fd) ls -l secret -r-------- 1 root root 17 2006-07-01 00:05 secret Regards, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list